Northstar pop-top question.

My guess would be he former owner strapped something to the roof. Kayak perhaps? These would be ideal for that I'd guess.

What would you expect them to look like if they were not manufacturer installed?

My point being that a clean hole does not make something manufacturer installed. There are a lot of meticulous people out there that are capable of installing a couple of screw eyes without drilling a hole with an axe, and pounding them in with a BFH.

That said, my guess is the previous owner of the camper put those eyes there for tiedown points for the same reason you want to use them. I'd still want to know what they're attached to before I used them though.

Thought this over a bit. If this is the driver side then that would be directly under my propane compartment. Not much support there. If this is the passenger side, it would be under the cassette toilet compartment. Even less support on that side. I'm just going off the picture and your reference in the duplicate post of wanting to tie down to your bumper and my 850sc camper. Unless somebody did some major bracing on your camper I would not be using that as the tie down point.

The only way to know for sure is to figure out how it's mounted. If it's just screwed into the plywood it will tear right out. If it's just through-bolted to the plywood, it will just tear a bigger hole.

It's also a bent-wire eyebolt, and not a very big one. These tend to want to straighten if any real tension is put on them. My camper has these eyebolts but they are quite large and heavy. Ideally we should both have forged eyebolts.

That factory tiedown point ahead of the eyebolt is attached to a reinforced area of the camper. *IF* the eyebolt is through-bolted to the same reinforced area, it *COULD* work.

Thanks for the response. Sorry for the posting confusion.

The eye bolts appear to be manufacture installed. I not sure what purpose they would serve other than an attachment point for something. I want to use the eye bolts to attach the rear turn buckles because it's less distance between the eye bolt and the rear bumper. When I use the attachment in front of the eye bolt the turn buckle is maxed out, not many threads grabbing.

Can you see how the eyebolts are fastened?
The original anchor points are likely reinforced from behind, and distribute the load evenly into the camper frame. The eyebolt may or may not be fastened right. For all I know, one of the previous woners may hae put it there for a clothesline...

The eyebolt itself may or may not be strong enough - you don't know how much load it can take before it breaks. Probably/possibly less than the original anchor.

I guess that is why the manufacturer wants to see how it is done, and what was done.

The eyebolt doesn't look to be very far behind the original anchor point. Is there a specific reason why you can not use these?

Why are there duplicate posts?
Why are there duplicate posts?